The Party Of Stupid

And when a listener scoffed at the notion of global warming, Steele eagerly ran with the baton.

"Thank you, thank you," he said. "We are cooling. We are not
warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am
using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland
for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like
we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How
long? No very long."

Greenland, for the record, likely had forestation some 450,000 to 800,000 years ago. But its name was derived, as is most commonly believed, from Erik the Red, who wanted to trick people into going to that island as opposed to the more hospitable Iceland.

The Greenland gaffe was not Steele's most glaring. Earlier in the
program a caller asked him about the importance of education. The RNC
Chair responded with a curious comment about the need to understand the
differences between Hitler and Mussolini, as opposed to FDR and "his
honor, the honorable Winston Churchill." Only, he spoke of "Roberto
Mussolini" -- an obscure essayist, it seems -- as opposed to the much
more infamous fascist, Benito.

"Education is key," said the RNC Chair. "It is where it begins, for
all of us... If we understand the difference between Marxism, socialism
and capitalism; if we understand the difference between a Roberto
Mussolini, an Adolf Hitler, and a Franklin Roosevelt, and his honor the
honorable Winston Churchill, if we know those differences than we can
appreciate what these times mean. And how history is a precursor of
things to come."

Can visits to the depths of creationist museums be far behind?

UPDATE: Link fixt. Sorry guys.

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